Torquay Business Awards launch into 2025

THE Torquay Business Awards are gearing up for 2025 with the official launch of the event to take place on May 1.

Now in its fourth year, the awards are the pinnacle of Commerce Torquay’s events calendar and are a chance to spotlight businesses in the 3228 postcode.

The launch marks the beginning of Torquay’s search in finding the region’s inspiring and outstanding businesses and business leaders with the opening of award entries and nominations.

Commerce Torquay president Sarah Minter said they have introduced some changes this year to come back bigger and better than 2024.

“Last year was the third year and we were building on the foundations laid by our friends at Rotary Club and we started to include a little bit more by way of categories,” she said.

“We weren’t expecting last year to be the huge success that it was, we were expecting it to gradually increase, but the actual number of entries and the quality of them was absolutely incredible.”

 

As the event continues to grow, this year’s awards will feature four new categories:

Event of the year

Best new business – for a business operating less than two years

Personal care, health, fitness, wellbeing and beauty, and

Outside the box.

The ideas for new categories came following last year’s awards and a debrief with partners, where they decided there were certain areas they could have more of a focus on.

Ms Minter said she is excited to see what entries they receive for the new categories, alongside the awards from last year.

“The idea of a new business award was something I’d wanted to include last year, but we hadn’t done it because we weren’t sure how many entries we’d receive.

“When we got such amazing momentum, we realised this past year, we’ve got that capacity to build on it and celebrate more businesses.”

Judging for this year’s awards has also undergone a change, adding a sustainability element into the criteria, alongside the current factors of business success and giving back to the community.

The launch will kick off at 5.30pm at Archers Torquay, tickets for the event are free for Commerce Torquay members and $30 for non-members.

The Torquay Business Awards will be held on Thursday, October 9.

For tickets and more information, head to commercetorquay.com.au

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